Zardari throws Taliban deal to Nawaz camp

While it is too soon to determine what the results of delay would be, this act is one more stroke in the Zardari Sharif ping-pong. Amir ul Momineen wannabee Sharif would have to lay down his cards in the parliament. Pity Asghar Imran Khan and Jamaat are not in the Parliament or they would also have to come clean before the public ~t

Resisting pressure from the establishment, President Asif Zardari in a dramatic move, has decided to let all the political parties share the burden of signing the controversial deal with the Taliban by throwing the ball in the court of parliament.

Zardari does not want to be held responsible for any negative fallout if this deal backfires in future, as then parliament will be responsible. But his plans have been upstaged by the ANP, which says parliament must first be empowered and only then it can take such responsibility.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was also said to have been caught off guard when he received the copy of Nizam-e-Adl from the presidency to table it before parliament as he, too, like rest of the politicians was expecting the president to sign the agreement.